On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 8:00 AM, AlunFoto <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm currently looking into switching to Lightroom as my primary > archiving tool, and am fascinated by the ease of applying keywords. > However, I also realise that I'd like to stick to a *limited* list of > keywords, and that the list better be correct and updated. > > So I would like to request the collective wisdom of the PDML on how to > manage keywords. What's your way of doing this? Are there any > proverbial Best Practices?
Not sure what you're looking for. There are many different notions of how to do keywording. Some are germain and specific to a stock agency's needs, others are best for photo sharing sites like flickr, others best for different business and personal uses. There are practically as many keywording policies that make sense as there are purposes for which photographs are used. The right set of keywords for a given photograph is a powerset of all of these ... literal, location, event and emotional keys for finding related images in a repository. Whenever I import images into Lightroom, I apply a basic set of keywords for whatever is in the group of images so that I can easily find them along with other images that might be loosely related. Once I work on the photos a bit, I refine the keywords applied to them. Over time, I've built up a few hundred different keywords I use, some quite frequently and others only occasionally. I'm constantly refining, tuning what is applied to various images with a notion of making them more easily identifiable in groups or individually. There are several books that treat this subject to one degree or another, practically and theoretically. Look up "keywords", "data asset management" and similar topics for references. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
